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Undistorted, Un(Fair) Competition, Consumer Welfare And The Interpretation Of Article 102 Tfeu, Anca Daniela Chirita
Undistorted, Un(Fair) Competition, Consumer Welfare And The Interpretation Of Article 102 Tfeu, Anca Daniela Chirita
Anca Daniela Chirita
This article explains the Lisbon Treaty’s provisions relating to competition policy and offers a dynamic interpretation of Article 102 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which could justify the consideration of an effects-based approach to those anti-competitive practices that are most harmful to the final consumers under the economic theory of consumer welfare. The implications of ‘consumerprotection requirements’ must shed special light on Article 12 TFEU. Therefore, this article examines the possibility of shifting the courts’ teleological interpretation of Article 102, which is based on Protocol 27’s ‘undistorted competition’, towards a legal balancing test of the Treaty’s …